Guantánamo Bay

UPDATE: In late May, 2010 Dan Stormer and Anne Richardson made HSKRR's fourth trip to Guantánamo Bay to conduct client interviews and hold meetings with co-counsel.

HSKRR currently represents Obaidullah, an Afghan national who alleges he has been wrongfully accused by the United States Government of being a member of al-Qaida and receiving military training from the Taliban. Obaidullah was seized in Afghanistan by coalition or U.S. military forces in July 2002 and was initially detained for several months at Bagram Air Base. Since that time, he has been held at the Naval Detention Center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba by the United States.

Following more than six years in custody without an adversarial proceeding on the merits of the government's allegations, the government filed charges against Obaidullah on September 9, 2008. His case was subsequently stayed pending the Obama Administration's review of all Guantánamo detainees' cases. We are now trying to lift the stay so that his habeas case can proceed. He has now been imprisoned more than 7 years without ever seeing the government’s evidence against him.

HSKRR's Anne Richardson has four times traveled to Guantánamo Bay to meet with our client. The firm is co-counseling the case with the University of Texas National Security Clinic and the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Click here for a listing of the current tally of habeas petitions granted and denied.

Click here to see an exhaustive study by journalist Andy Worthington, who has been detailing the stories of each of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since it opened in 2002.

April 12, 2010 - Protestors demand Guantanamo closure on facility’s eighth anniversary:
On the eighth anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay prison, activists dressed in prison suits took to the streets of Washington demanding closure of the facility – something that President Obama promised to do a year ago. Read More.

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